Introduction to Vedanta Part 2 - Swami Sarvapriyananda - January 19, 2016
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- vedanta.org In a series of talks, Swami Sarvapriyananda lucidly unfolds the fundamentals of Advaita Vedanta presented in Drg Drsya Viveka. This talk - delivered on January 19, 2016 at the Vedanta Temple in Hollywood, CA - covers verses 2 to 5 in "Drg Drsya Viveka: An Inquiry into the Nature of the Seer and the Seen by Swami Nikhilananda".
Full of gratitude. The force, humour, benevolent intelligence and humility that were in Vivekananda are shining through this "sadhu" sadhu :)
I've watched Drg Drsya Viveka for the first time in 2015 (or 2016). Now, after watching some 83 vids of Bhagavadgita by Sarvapriyananda, I suddenly felt like revising, and returned to Drg Drsya Viveka.
Suddenly... what was at "theory" level to me when I first listened to "I am brahman" from Sarvapriyananda... became "practical realization". I am able to now clearly see how I am brahman and how my mind is troubling itself and the surrounding body through it's mischief of continuous thinking worrying etc... and due to that, the mind is not allowing me to provide what I am capable of providing.
So, "practically" what I realized is... that I have no direct relation with my mind and body... the body is present to support the mind... the mind is present to be a tool for my experience of the world (in a dualistic sense)... but through constant thinking my view is blocked by mind and mind does what it wants.
So, the aim is to silence the mind so to return to the original state... mind becomes a tool for me to experience the universe... and then I can provide anything the mind wants... and through this mind I can communicate directly with other minds too (as Vivekananda did -- telepathy, etc)
Please comment on my words.
And, please write back about ur practical understanding of the phrase "I am brahman". Thanks for reading :)
This is a great discourse for the beginner in Vedanta Study. Please keep uploading the next videos.God Bless.
Namaste Swamiji, excellent orator as the subject is very difficult to explain, but you have managed it very well... we are lucky to have the chance to hear you...imagine 100 years ago it was spoken.... you speak at Hollywood and we listen in India through media... its amazing
Pranams Maharaj.. Your discourses are as revealing as the Vedanta we are trying to grasp.
You are not the one who likes this video, you are the know-er of this likeness. :)
Thanks for the reminder, literally forgot few minutes after watching pt1 :)
It. Can be in hindi
Exactly! Some people also disliked it. Wish they may progress above Vedanta :-)
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It is true that it requires great patience to listen and absorb Bramha Sutra teachings. I consider myself as the luckiest since I could get a great guru who had taught Bramha Sutra for eight years without interruption and I am ever grateful to my guru who had taught us with great patience .
Superb...for so so long iwas looking for these lectures.i can now slowly yet steadily see clouds of confusion n doubts dispersing.Thanks a lot.
Thank you so much for uploading. No words for the knowledge imparted. Swami Sarvapriyananda makes learning vedanta more understandable
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Sairam Swami Sarvapriyananda JiFinally after long journey in life am able to understand and see what you are showing. The Self is The Sakshi , The Eternal Witness , The Consciousness which is none other than MySelf my OwnSelf. For the first time could focus on The Self as a Witness separate from the mind and the body . Now can blissfully feel and say to myself am not this body am not this mind I AM the Self The Sakshi The Consciousness that pervades ALL. New journey has started to saturate MySelf with this bliss. With Infinite Love and Gratitude. Saiasha.
Very enlightening.Hppe the young generation encourage their kids as neglect lead to ignorance.Pronam Swamiji.
Constantly thinking about the fact that you are a Witness is what allows you to discover the Knowledge that I am the Witness. This is achieved through shravana-manana-nididhyasana
Wonderful discourse. Please keep us providing wonderful lectures.
Pranams . I feel positive .
Bahut.bahut.dhanyabad.thanks.Swami.ji
so extraordinary talk! thanx for uploading this!
Gratidão, Swami!🙏
Another beautiful lecture. I am learning so much, thank you.
Wonderful... answered the right questions at the right junctures..
May all brothers and sisters across the globe realise the purpose of their life
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Amazing lecture Swami ji! Om shanti shanti! 🙏
It would be great to talk about being conscious in deep sleep, which is a practice in some sorts of Buddhism.
Pranam Swamiji 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Thanks for uploading. Pranams
Great lectures swamiji I bow my head.
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Precisamos das legendas em português em todos os vídeos. Existem várias pessoas interessadas em vedanta no Brasil.
We need portuguese subtitles. There are many people in Brazil interested in Vedanta. Please, do it for us.
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Portuguese subtitles are now available.
🙏 Swamiji. The jiva consists of three types of body viz physical, mental and causal. Can one see and understand casual body?
@@nataraju149 Acc. to my limited understanding you can't see and understand the causal body, because seeing is done by sense organ which can only perceive whats before it i.e. world of forms and can't perceive whats after/behind it i.e. mind(world of ideas/experiences). Now, the mind can perceive whats before i.e sense organs but can't perceive whats after/behind i.e. causal body (Anandamaya Kosha). During deep sleep, there is causal body in your experience but mind and sense organs shuts down.
I hope it may help to understand. 🙏
Namaste swamiji... my Pranams to you Guru Maharaj
The second discourse is very appealing which reaches the average intellect person.
thank God for CZcams.....now i don't have to go to India to understand Vedanta......
wonderful ! many many thanks for uploading.
Swamiji, Thank you very much 🙏🙏🙏
I feel that as soon as we start watching thoughts, they disappear! Can thoughts stand without us? If someone is blind, objects still exists. Does that mean the world of thoughts exists without me, the individual observer?
ask yourself, what will my next thought be, and watch carefully waiting for it. you will see it won't come but then you'll think about this lol, however in few brief moments you can see as you said that the thoughts disappear :)
great talks. thanks for uploading.
Hari Aum Swamiji
Excellent talk.
Pranam swamiji. You explain so well. I'm really benefited. I am trying to change.
Brilliant !
Wow, so excellent.
Swamiji great to listen. Thanks for uploading.
Very nice. Wonderful clarity
When one says that one is less conscious or more conscious, he is still absolutely aware of the level of his own consciousness. That consciousness by which one's consciousness of body and mind is illumined is the consciousness that Vedanta reveals, is it not ? And that brahman shines independent of the states of the mind and the body.
Pranams anf thanks to Swamiji.
Rakshith Rajashekar : indeed, well-said !
Pranams swami 🙏🏽
Excellent explanation!
Pranam Guruji 🙏
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Revealing n enlightening.
What is the best english translation of drg drsya viveka? I have been viewing the one translated by SWAMI NIKHILANANDA in 1931. Anyone?
Swami Nikhilananda was a realised soul and that is the best translation recommended by the scholars.
Naman, SwamiJi.
Thank you very much Swamiji for such a great class on Vedanta.
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ఆంధ్య మాంధ్య పటుత్వేషు
మిత్ర ధర్మేషు చైకధా
సంకల్పయేత్ మనఃశ్రోత్ర త్వగాదౌ యోజ్యతామిదం
that guy had my question too...after enlightenment and the end of this body, will I find myself (as awareness) experiencing through another body?
"I I I I I I I ain't got no bodddddy!"
Anyone watched the brahma sutra explained by sarvapriyananda? I am really trying to find these video if its uploaded in youtube
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Excellent speech . Can you please let us know the book referred during the lectures , the one that gives the verse of the Veda in Sanskrit , word by word meaning and the explanation . If PDF isavailable or from where we can squire in india ? Thanks
Name of the book is Drg-Drsya-Viveka, Please google this name, you will get link to download
I have a doubt
If you call the eyes as the seer then the seen i.e. an object it projects on the eyes it becomes the part of it. Even for a while only it becomes the part of it.
If you consider mind as the seer then whatever you thinks that becomes the part of it as a thought. If you consider atman as the seer then again certain things becomes the part of it as sanskar then howcome atman is not changed? Why then you say that the seer is not changing?
Good question 😊 But I would like to point out that by considering reflection you have gone into the same loop taking yourself back to stage 1. Maharaj mentioned that there are 2 parameters that do not swap seer/seen position. The Absolute Seen (Jagat) and the Absolute Seer (Consciousness/Aatman as you say). I will try to clarify this to you as per my vague understanding at this point of knowledge. When you say "the imprint for a split second" you have come out of the 3rd stage to 1st. Understand it this way. Seer and Seen are like Processor and Data. Absolute Data flows from Stage 1 to Stage 3 and is processed by the Processor. Please remember that these are absolutes, therefore let's nullify wear and tear or overheating parameters.😂 The processor is just there to process and that is what it solely does. The mind taps into this processor and spits out an output but the processor remains unchanged. Therefore, samskaras extend only till the mind. The good and bad samskaras vary only in degree and not in nature. The Absolute Seer already knows it all but mind doesn't. Therefore mind taps into the Absolute Seer and brings out the chunk it (mind) has just perceived from the Absolute Seen and interprets it therefore limiting itself to intellect and thereby helping you, me and all of us here to understand in a finite sense. To simplify; Consciousness is Ideal and Absolute and the Mind borrows from the Absolute Illumination to Illuminate itself. This does not change the Absolute Illumination or reduces/enhances it's Illumination by any way.
I have strived to explain this only from my limited knowledge of Drg Drishya Vivek. As you read further in your quest you will get to know it better that the Aatman is neither Known nor it is Unknown. It is beyond the concept of knowledge. I suggest you to read Shri Ramana Maharshi's "Who Am I?" in your mother tongue for best understanding. Om Tat Sat.🙏
Where's the guy who said he was gonna post summary notes of lectures on every video in comments
Dhonobad aar aamaarr pronam nebeen. Aiita Jodi baachader chotototheke Ma Babara aar borora shekhaia unek unnoti hobe aamaader samaje! Pronam.
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Thank you very much
if i am going to learn about advaita vedanta it is with out any doubt only through swamijis lecture series for a beginner like me. outstanding amazing simply superb.. my pranams to swamiji. from aravamudhan, chennai.india
Obrigado!
According to Ramana maharshi thoughtless mind is bhakti...then what is actual difference between deep sleep and samadhi...if in deep sleep only consciousness then men is free and eligible for salvation..please clear the doubt 🙏
Can someone please tell where are the 6 exercises
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1:01:06 -- Does mind get tired through excessive thinking or brain?
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Is there thing beyond consensus or it is ultimate
I am very much impressed by the discourse. Could you kindly let me know where to find the book which Swami ji was referring to ..
The book is called ->Dṛg Dṛśya Viveka
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Swami experiencer and knower are same or different.
Why have you changed "Brahmah" to "Brahman" to "Brah-man"? As I have heard it pronounced since my childhood, it was "Brahmah".
Something which makes my mind sad is that unfortunately our sages couldn't come at a single understanding. Why did they have to create so many interpretations? If they couldn't agree upon the truth, how can I?
Lokesh Sharma : Truth ... the real truth is multi dimensional, infact its infinite dimensional, hence many interpretation, if not all, are relative truth. But none is completely truth as whats really truth is something which cant be stated, its evident profoundly and yet hidden deeply. Thats why Paradox, is often used in vedanta, so that its clears that the discussed are the properties of Him, these properties belong to Him, but He isnt the one which can be realised just through them . HIS realisation is upto us to find.
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Just to add what sri Mohit Verma ji said - Inspite of several interpretations, it is advaita vedanta, with Sankara's commentary, stood the test of time and has been recognised by majority of spiritual seekers world over as some thing highly rational, as instead of simply basing it on faith, one can personally test the truth propounded
at least they have some interpretation in search of the metaphysical truth unlike us who are getting into the materialistic world day by day....
There is only one Truth and that is You. You alone are. Nothing else exists. This is the Ultimate Truth.
Is vedanta study a good place for a newcomer to Hinduism to begin study?
Yes.
Shane Lunsford It sure is
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The words "Witness" and "illumines" are much abused words, and actually are a disservice to understanding the concepts. Why should the Consciousness "Witness" the states of mind- it is like saying the Consciousness "sees" the states of mind. The word "Awarenes" is more apt. Similarly, Consciousness does no such thing as "illumine" the states of mind, anymore than saying the blue color of wind is preciously small.
If consciousness is the witness, what is its purpose?
To just witness.
Mind needs purpose, witness just witnesses what's going on :)
Namaste
My manana efforts -
Can I know my self ? No. Can you see light, no, no one can see light, you can only experience light if something blocks the light, and you see the object that blocks the light, and you say there is light. I can ‘know I intellectually’ only by I illumining objects like world, body, mind…
Vedanta - ‘Anta’ has 2 meanings - end part of a bigger text, as well the conclusions of the text; same as the word ‘End’ in English - end part as well the conclusions.
Prasthana traya bases - Upanishad (sruti), Bhagavad Gita (smriti), Brahmasutra (nyaya).
My body is definitely born in this birth cycle, and it will definitely die in this birth cycle. Part of my mind came from this birth cycle and part of it from another birth cycle, part of it can die in this birth cycle, part of it can go to another birth cycle. I am never born and I can never die.
Please correct me at the errors.
I have a question,, as Swami appears to say something that is contradictory. At 31:08 he says "Mind is required to know thoughts, feelings, emotions", but then a little later, at: 31:53, he says: "But to know the contents of my own mind, consciousness does not require any instrument, it illumines directly". So on one hand, he says the mind is required to know thoughts, feelings and emotions (which are nothing other than the content of the mind), yet on the other hand, he says 'Consciousness does not require any instrument to know the content of the mind" (i.e, thoughts, feelings and emotions). Can anyone else see what appears to be a contradiction here? If anyone can help me clear this up, I would be grateful. Thank you.
He explained it further with an example, do you need to see yourself to know you exist? The Answer Is No, How Do You Know You Exist? That's The Consciousness. So Basically Consciousness Is Always There But It Needs Equipments Such As Brain And Sense Organs To Know The Outer World. Consciousness Is The Seer And The Brain Is The Seen.
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50:06 just to know something
What about the blind persons?
Use ears and sounds hearer/heard same concept
My great aunt is blind. She loves reading braile bhagvad Gita and studying vedas
The problem with that is that there is no proof that the witnesser, the knower is not a process in the brain. So are you the chemical process in your brain?
Guy cannot sing. Case closed. Swami my arse. Convincing though. Anyone? Thought not. Tend to the real, surely...
+Boylieboyle, It may take a few thousand births for you to understand, if you are lucky!!
@@emrao7732 I quite like the guy actually lol
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